Re: git format-patch --in-reply-to allows header injection. Intended?

Niklas Hambüchen [off-list ref] writes:

On 04/09/14 23:36, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

While I do not think of a reason to specify such a string to the
in-reply-to option (I'd rather edit the output in the editor if I
wanted to do anything fancy [*1*]), I do not think there is a reason
why you want to add a code to forbid such use, either.

My question was to find out whether I can pass untrusted user input to
...

Ah, in general, anybody who passes unvetted user input to any Git
Porcelain deserves what s/he gets, so perhaps you would want to at
least make sure that the input is a single line, or something.